From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 17:05:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09032 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:05:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09019 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:05:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul1.u.washington.edu (root@saul1.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.10]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA04550; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:05:46 -0800 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id RAA07303; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:05:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:04:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: "D.E. Hashbarger" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uniformitdy In-Reply-To: <00ac01bd5f5c$70922da0$6f011d26@i-ni8rk81> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, D.E. Hashbarger wrote: > I don't like the patched together feel of Linux, and I'm hoping that > FreeBSD does feels more uniform, due to it's central authority. What > do you say? Dan I have never used Linux so I cannot compare the two OSes. I can say this. FreeBSD is a very tight package. Throw in the ports collection and it is more tight. Software installs with ease. I have never NOT been able to get any software in the ports collection to run. I have had to tweak a couple of makefiles to get a couple ports to work, but that was because of my mucking around. FreeBSD has just two development branches: -current and -stable. There is no Redhat, Slackware, or Debian distrbutions to deal with. There is just -current and -stable. -current is bleeding edge. -stable is, well, stable. :) For those of us who don't monkey around with the latest sources it is even easier. From the -stable branch of development there is ONE release. The current release is 2.2.6. Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message